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Study Reveals Lakes a Major Source of Prehistoric Methane

October 24, 2007

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A team of scientists led by a researcher from the University of Alaska Fairbanks has identified a new likely source of a spike in atmospheric methane coming out of the North during the end of the last ice age.
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